Trachoma infections have impaired the vision of 1.9 million people globally. This month, Ghana announced it had eliminated the disease. Here’s how.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Burundi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it ...

Trachoma, a bacterial eye infection caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, remains the leading infectious cause of blindness ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal ...

Trachoma was not always so little known. It was once an exclusion criterion at Ellis Island for those wishing to immigrate into the United States (see photo).The sadness caused by such exclusions ...

Trachoma, a leading cause of infectious blindness, is a chlamydial infection that happens due to lack of hygiene and unclean water supply and can spread by contact with the eye, nose or throat ...

Trachoma, an infection caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, can lead to blindness and disappeared in non-Indigenous Australians about 100 years ago. Scarring.

Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world today. Long ago eliminated in North America and Europe, the disease is almost unknown, and indeed forgotten, in the West.

Trachoma was a significant public health concern in India during the 1950s and 1960s, affecting over 50 per cent of the populations in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, ...